Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does that mean it can't go on? That stocks must finally tumble in 1998? No. Perhaps the market's bounds will keep stretching like the elastic belt on your holiday trousers. But it does suggest that the risk of a retraction is more acute. A stiff sell-off last week--the worst New Year's start in seven years--underscores that point. And with Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan now spouting off about possible deflation in the economy, it may pay to favor bonds for a while. I'd certainly be slow to invest any new wads of cash...
...women--one mourning a lost child, the other yearning to have one--offer mirror images of the mothering instinct. The men--a working stiff grabbing furtive pleasure on the fly and an executive taking stupid risks (Jeffrey likes to tiptoe along balustrades high above the street)--reflect, in their class-differentiated ways, the contemporary male's desperate need for adventure. But Afterglow's writer-director, Alan Rudolph, is not entirely certain whether temporarily mixing and rematching these couples is a funny idea or a poignant...
...play's often lush productions. Foley's Antony and Cleopatra's is set in the Victorian Age, and Cleopatra's Egypt is a drab bedroom furnished only with a frumpy wooden four-poster bed. Instead of flowing and exotic garments, Cleopatra and her two dowdy maidservants wear corsets and stiff, dull-colored Victorian dresses with high collars...
...helplessness of his character makes one view his emotional tirades like those of a child. Everyone, save Cleopatra and Caesar, seems to float alone through the story, which is why the Victorian setting works perfectly. The sterility and repressed nature of the Victorian era bridges the characters; this stiff society would not have acknowledged such gaps in personal relationships...
...Crimson finished the two-day event with a team total of 34.5 points, placing 15th out of 50 teams-worth of stiff competition...